Over in China a Radeon RX 460 has been spotted with 1024 activated shader processors, normally that value would be 896 shader processors. The card was spotted at the Chinese Sapphire website. Now, 1024 shader/stream processors means a fully unlocked Polaris 11 GPU is being used.

We've already seen some BIOS mods with RX 460 owners unlocking the rest of the shader processors, but this would be the first formal introduction. The card was fitted with 4GB gddr5 memory and runs a 1250 MHz clock frequency (normally 1200MHz). All in all this should be good for a bit of a performance bump for the RX 460, let's say roughly 10%.

It remains unclear if this SKU is China only, hence do not expect the 1024 SP version in the EU and USA anytime soon.